The Yarrow Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABB C BABAA C DEDEE F GAGAA F DAHAA| A Tortured tree in a huddled hollow | A |
| On whose gnarled boughs three leaves are blowing | B |
| A strip of path that the hunters follow | A |
| That leads to fields of the wind's wild sowing | B |
| And a rain washed hill with the wild thorn growing | B |
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| II | C |
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| And here one day when the sky was raining | B |
| And the wind came sharp as an Indian arrow | A |
| And Winter walked on the hills complaining | B |
| I found a blossom of summer yarrow | A |
| In the freezing wet where the way was narrow | A |
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| III | C |
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| Its dim white umble was bravely lifted | D |
| Defying Winter and wind and weather | E |
| Facing the rout as they whirled and shifted | D |
| Twisting its blossom and leaves together | E |
| Its fern fair leaves that were sweet as the heather | E |
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| IV | F |
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| And I thought as I saw it there so fearless | G |
| Facing death that was sure to follow | A |
| When the sky and the earth with white were cheerless | G |
| And the rabbit shivered within its hollow | A |
| That here was a weed that was worth the swallow | A |
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| V | F |
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| Its fortitude and its strength reminded | D |
| My soul of the souls that arc like the yarrow | A |
| That face defeat though its blows have blinded | H |
| And smile and fight in their heart an arrow | A |
| And fall unknown in the path that is narrow | A |
Madison Julius Cawein
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